Sanderling. 



SANDERLING (Tringa arenaria, Illiger.) 



Charadrius calidris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 255. 9. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 689 — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. p. 741. 4 Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. p. 68 — Tringa arenaria, Linn. Syst. 



1. p. 251. 16.— Raii, Syn. p. 109. A. 11 Will. p. 125.— Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 680. 



Arenaria Calidris, Meyer, Orn. 2. p. 326 Calidris grisea minor, Briss. 5. p. 236. 



17. t. 20. f. 2 lb. 8vo. 2. p. 272 Calidris grisea, Briss.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 



688. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. p. 129.— Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. p. 480 Temm.Man. 



d'Orn. 2. p. 522 Le Sanderling, Bttjf. Ois. 7. p. 532 Sanderling, or Cur- 



willet, Br. Zool. 2. No. 212. t. 73 lb. fol. 129.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 403.— 



Will. (Angl.) p. 303 Albin, 2. t. 74 Lewins Br. Birds, 5. t. 183 Lath. 



Syn. 5. p. 197 Supp. p. 253 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 160 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 



16 — Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 375 Flem. Br. Anim. p. 112. — Linn. Trans. 8. 



p. 268. 



A small species ; weight about two ounces ; length eight inches ; 

 bill black, one inch in length ; irides dusky ; fore part of the head and 

 sides beneath the eyes, as well as the whole under parts from chin to 

 vent, white ; crown of the head, back of the neck, and scapulars, grey, 

 with slight dusky streaks down the shafts of each feather ; wing coverts 

 the same colour, but nearly plain ; greater quills dusky ; secondaries 

 grey, tipped with white ; tail grey, the exterior feathers lightest ; legs 

 black. This is the general winter plumage. 



Of some specimens in our collection, which were killed on the coast 

 of Cornwall in the latter end of July and in August, one has the head, 

 neck, and sides of the breast, streaked with black, and tinged with 

 ferruginous ; back and scapulars marked with large spots of black, and 



